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January 14, 2025

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Rest Is Memory’ is a novel inspired by photos taken at Auschwitz

About 10 years ago, author Lily Tuck was reading obituaries in The New York Times when she came across photos of Czesława Kwoka, a young prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. Tuck didn't know much about Kwoka besides her name and age, but decided to try to write about her. The result is her new novel, The Rest Is Memory, which imagines Kwoka's life at Auschwitz. In today's episode, Tuck speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about how she approaches narrating a story through Kwoka's eyes, the careful attention she pays to language, and the Polish people who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

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January 14, 2025

Short Wave - Bone Marrow Cells: Key To Vaccine Longevity?

The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine generates enough of an antibody response to protect against severe disease for six months. But other vaccines offer years-long — even lifelong — immunity, such as the measles or yellow fever vaccines. Is there a way for scientists to tell how long a person's immunity will last? A team at Stanford Medicine might have found a way to do just that — with the help of some of the cells found in our bone marrow.

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January 14, 2025

Short Wave - The Science Behind Wildfire Smoke

Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted due to smoke from the ongoing wildfires. With all that smoke comes possible risks to human health. So what actually is smoke and why is it so harmful? Jessica Gilman, an atmospheric chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explains what smoke is made of, how it behaves in the atmosphere and smoke's role in climate change. Plus, tips for how to lessen your exposure.

Check out the CDC's recommendations for avoiding smoke inhalation here. Read more of NPR's coverage of the fires.

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January 14, 2025

What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?

How could Donald Trump make good on his vow to end birthright citizenship, currently a constitutional right? It starts with a willing judiciary.

Guest: Isabela Dias, immigration reporter for Mother Jones.

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.

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January 14, 2025

Chapo Trap House - 899 – Nut Up feat. Yasha Levine & Rowan Wernham (1/13/25)

We’re joined by journalist Yasha Levine & filmmaker Rowan Wernham of the new documentary “Pistachio Wars” join us to look at water in the state of California in light of last week’s L.A. wildfires. We discuss California’s water history, the network of real estate developers and agribusiness concerns that effectively control California’s water, the Resnick family and their Nut Empire, 21st century company towns, and how California water politics affect the Iran Nuclear deal. Watch The Pistachio Wars documentary now: https://www.pistachiowars.com/

January 14, 2025

Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of our Ingenuity 2544: Face Recognition

Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.

January 14, 2025

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Robots building robots in a robotic factory

Postman is an API development platform that lets developers prototype, document, test, and demo all their APIs in one place.

Postman’s cofounder and CEO recently wrote about the rise of agentic AI.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Knossos, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What is the difference between TextView and TextViewCompat.

APIs, AI, GraphQL, REST, gRPC, API-first, Sterling Chin, Postman, technology, software development

January 14, 2025

Read Me a Poem - “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Amanda Holmes reads Robinson Jeffers’s “The Purse-Seine.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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January 14, 2025

It Could Happen Here - CES 2025: AI Toys Are Coming For Your Kids

Robert and Garrison round up all the horrifying childcare products with AI jammed in them from CES 2025.

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January 14, 2025

Everything Everywhere Daily - Famine

One of the most devastating disasters that has afflicted humanity are famines.

Unlike other natural disasters, famines do not have a single cause. They have happened all over the world for a wide variety of reasons; some of them have natural causes, and others are man-made.

Famines are typically much worse than natural disasters and are rivaled only by pandemics and wars.

Learn more about famines, their causes, and how they devastated humanity throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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